OMG - story about my MIL

[Tinkermommy]

I have to say upfront that I love my MIL. She's always been great to me. We just recently visited my in-laws over the holiday weekend and I am really beginning to think that she is getting dementia.

Here's the scoop. My BIL (who is 28) lost his job about a year and a half ago and he's back home with Mom and Dad. I've always felt that she wants to keep him at home, baby him, etc.

So DH, BIL and I went out one night to a comedy club and he told us a story. About a year or so ago when he had his own apartment, he got a call from his Mom around 9pm on a Friday night. Did not return the call as he was out with buddies. Fast forward to the next morning around 8am. BIL is at home with a woman he met the night before. Then he hears a commotion and firefighters along with his mom burst through his door and into his bedroom!!!

The unclothed woman runs into the bathroom to hide while BIL deals with his mom who is in tears and the firefighters who are trying not to laugh!

His mom said since he didn't return the call she was afraid he went into diabetic shock.

Then he said recently that she started talking to him about the birds and the bees and if he ever thought of "doing anything" he should use protection.

Our advice to BIL is to move far, far away. MIL has always been a little too involved with BIL and his life/choices. He's kind of using that to his advantage as well, but that was way over the top!

Just thought I would share! Anyone else caught in flagrante delicto?

 

[laurie31]

Oh wow - that IS over the top! I'm sure the firefighters had a good laugh once they got back to the station!!

The closest we ever came to being caught was when our girls were very little, our church had Parents Night Out in early December, where you could leave your kids for a few hours so you could shop for Santa gifts on the sly and not have to pay a sitter.

Well, DH and I had other plans than shopping for our evening sans kids.

Unfortunatly, his parents decided to come visit. They are the "drop in" type. Normally it's not a big deal, we were both raised that way, but that evening, we were in no state to open the door. They KEPT KNOCKING!! Then they CAME IN!!! (yeah, they have a key) We actually hid!! We were married with two kids, it wasn't like we had anything to be ashamed of, but dang!

 

[tonilea]

I have to say upfront that I love my MIL. She's always been great to me. We just recently visited my in-laws over the holiday weekend and I am really beginning to think that she is getting dementia.

Here's the scoop. My BIL (who is 28) lost his job about a year and a half ago and he's back home with Mom and Dad. I've always felt that she wants to keep him at home, baby him, etc.

So DH, BIL and I went out one night to a comedy club and he told us a story. About a year or so ago when he had his own apartment, he got a call from his Mom around 9pm on a Friday night. Did not return the call as he was out with buddies. Fast forward to the next morning around 8am. BIL is at home with a woman he met the night before. Then he hears a commotion and firefighters along with his mom burst through his door and into his bedroom!!!

The unclothed woman runs into the bathroom to hide while BIL deals with his mom who is in tears and the firefighters who are trying not to laugh!

His mom said since he didn't return the call she was afraid he went into diabetic shock.

Then he said recently that she started talking to him about the birds and the bees and if he ever thought of "doing anything" he should use protection.

Our advice to BIL is to move far, far away. MIL has always been a little too involved with BIL and his life/choices. He's kind of using that to his advantage as well, but that was way over the top!

Just thought I would share! Anyone else caught in flagrante delicto?

Is your BIL a diabetic?

 

[PelletierBears]

My MIL used to be like that...worrisome? paranoid?
If we didn't answer the phone or call her back within an hour or so of her calling she would start calling people we know to check on us!

One Christmas morning her older son wasn't answering his phone so she wanted my husband and his sister's husband to make the 90 min drive (one way!) to check on him and his family. Thankfully he called her back before they got on the road and where do you think they were...church! Gee christmas morning where might a family be! I was so annoyed that her paranoia was going to ruin my family's christmas morning.

By the way, just so I don't sound like an insensitive SIL if there was any justification to be worried I would have check on them myself!

Never been caught having alone time with hubby THANK GOODNESS!!!

 

[N&B'smom]

Wow, she's got some serious issues. I feel badly for your BIL! I agree, he should move VERY far away, like a whole different country!

 

[Tinkermommy]

Is your BIL a diabetic?

Yes he is diabetic. He also had a roommate at the time though.

 

[tonilea]

Yes he is diabetic. He also had a roommate at the time though.

At least she didn't dream the whole thing up, though it would be even funnier if he wasn't a diabetic.

I don't remember all the details, but once my MIL decided we had been poisioned by carbon monoxide because we were screening our calls and sent a neighbor over to check on us. It is kinda sad, she has done so many crazy things that I am really sketchy on the details. *sigh*

 

[Val]

My MIL is sadly in the end stages of dementia and lung cancer....but in her early dementia years she provided many funny stories. We were actually pulled over by state police in Georgia on our way to WDW. Officer comes to the drivers side, asks my DH for ID......looks at it and says, "so, is your mother named Martie?".....DH replies, "yes".......officer looks at him and says "call your @#$!@# mother so she stops calling the state police thinking you have run away and are dead on the road. She is driving us NUTS! Have a good day."......


......apparently she had been calling Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida state police with our license plate number over and over, convinced we were dead on the interstate......DH did have words with her over that one!

unfortunately, she doesn't even recognize us today. Just had her 88th birthday on Tuesday and we couldn't even get her to make eye contact. She just wanted to scoot back and forth in her wheel chair. At least she appears happy and isn't worried about us anymore.

 

[omghidanielle]

My Mother does this with my uncle sometimes. It's pretty amusing. He travels all around the world, but will always tell her that he's in Mexico, because if he ever actually admits where he's going, they will be worried sick (he only tells my husband the truth because he knows he will tell NO ONE unless it's an emergency). While he's away, she'll ask every day "Can you text Matthew in Mexico? I want to make sure he is alright". I always pick up my phone and punch random numbers, and not actually send a text, because 1) I know he's not in Mexico and 2) wherever he is, his phone doesn't work. Then he comes back a few weeks later, gives her a souvenir from Indonesia, tells her it's a Mexican artifact and says I text him too much.

It gets pretty crazy sometimes, like the one time he didn't answer his cell phone for an entire day (because it was lost) and she and my other night drove from Philadelphia to Baltimore (where he lived) at 2AM to make sure he was still alive because neither one of them could sleep.

Some people are just very overbearing.

 

[dicar123]

......apparently she had been calling Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida state police with our license plate number over and over, convinced we were dead on the interstate......DH did have words with her over that one!

My parents did something similar when I was in labor with my first child.

My mom had been calling me several times a day for weeks on end "just to check", "because she had a funny feeling", etc. One morning, I had just woken up and was deciding what to do with myself when I felt a small rush of fluid. Hmm, that's weird, when your water breaks isn't it a big gush? But I knew I hadn't wet myself, so I figured I'd call the Dr. when the office opened (about 15 minutes later). 10 seconds later my phone is ringing and it is my mother. I explain what is happening to her, get off the phone and call the Dr. They tell me to run by the hospital to be checked.

The hospital checks, yes it was amniotic fluid, but I am only dialated the tiniest amount and having no contractions. They admit me because now there is a path to infection of the baby, they apply some gel and tell me I can go home for a few hours and get my stuff, etc.

We go home, I call my mother and explain the situation, and tell her dh will call when there is a baby. This was about 4:00pm on Monday. Tuesday at 11:00am, I am in my hospital room, pushing for all I am worth, and the phone rings. It's my dad. My husband has this big, long conversation with my dad while I am trying to push!

My mom had gotten nervous because it was taking so long. Did dh forget to call, or were the baby and I in some type of danger? She insisted my dad call the Navy Base where dh was stationed and get the name of the hospital because she forgot to write it down. My dad was given the names and numbers of several hospitals and proceeded to call them all asking if his daughter, so-and-so, had been admitted to deliver a baby.

It's a funny story now.

 

[indimom]

I have to say upfront that I love my MIL. She's always been great to me......Anyone else caught in flagrante delicto?

Okay, I'll share my slightly embarassing moment. When DD was about 2, we stopped by MIL's house and she asked to keep our daughter for a couple hours. (We only lived about 3 miles away). We happily agreed, went home, locked up (thank god) and ...
Anyway, about an hour after we had left MIL, I look out the window and her car is in our drive, but she and DD are nowhere to be seen. We head outside to find her pushing DD on the swingset.
"Oh, Hi, Surprised to see you guys so soon? Did you knock? How long have you been here??" "Um, I was in the back, doing laundry. Didn't hear you."
"Awhile, "DD missed you guys and wanted to come home..."

My MIL is a very prim and proper kind of woman, so to say I was mortified would be an understatement.


Now, a story about my parents and their LACK of parental concern. I'll preface by explaining that it all happened before anyone in our family owned cellphones.
When DSis and her ex-hubby were living on the same road as my parents, they came over one weekend so he could work on an old lawn mower my parents no longer used. He planned to fix it up and use it at their house. Mom and Dad left for a while to do some shopping. After they left, DSis decided to run into town as well to pick up some lunch.
While they were all gone, my former BIL got a little distracted in his work and ended up getting his hand into the running mower blade and took the ends off of three fingers and sliced the fourth. He didn't have a car there, but left the mower running in the yard, dashed into the house, bleeding everywhere, grabbed a kitchen towell, dug through mom and dad's keys for their second car, took the car and drove himself to the ER.
As he was heading into town, he passed DSis and waved her to follow him.

So, when my parents got home, they found a mower running, the house wide open, blood everywhere, keys scattered, everyone gone and their car gone too. They just cleaned up and waited for someone to call and tell them what happened. They sort of assumed there had been an accident with the mower, but couldn't make heads or tales out of the car situation since DSis had been at the house when they left... They didn't even try to call our local ER for info. Felt like it wasn't their place, since BIL and DSis were adults. Just sat around and waited for word.